SJWs, Jordan Peterson, and Democracy

Jordan Peterson is right about IQ, gender pronouns, and SJWs…but wrong in other regards, and like his enlightenment brethren, clings to democracy and misdiagnoses problem. The only societies that are not slave societies are western enlightenment democracies. From my C2C interview: https://t.co/jdcmwbl5Cl pic.twitter.com/JcWNYn1LSm — Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) December 4, 2016 He’s right: SJWs and… Continue reading SJWs, Jordan Peterson, and Democracy

Summary: The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction

Another ‘NRx summary’ article: The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction As par for the course, there are mentions of Less Wrong and Eliezer Yudkowsky, who are somehow lumped with NXx for reasons that elude me. Especially as of 2015, the rationalist community is only tenuously, at best, linked with… Continue reading Summary: The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction

Implementation of HBD-based Policy

From Gwern on a Hacker News comment thread: I always regarded myself as being a left libertarian sort of type. My reaction to learning about individual differences being so profoundly driven by genetics – never mind racial differences – was simple: research and subsidize genetic engineering. For everyone. To the point of being free. Level… Continue reading Implementation of HBD-based Policy

YouTube Censorship

This story is going viral: The three reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber Allow me to extrapolate on a meme those kids today are using: “Dude, you had one job. And it looked like a really easy one.” Let’s Players, streamers or content creators, whatever you like, get to play video games and make… Continue reading YouTube Censorship

Is college a big waste of time and money? It depends

Interesting article: Everything Wrong with College And that’s how you end up with doctors being forced to endure 14 years of schooling. Hard to open a little family practice and provide cheap care when you’re 160 thousand dollars in debt. It’s become pretty fashionable these days , both for the ‘left’ and the ‘right’ to… Continue reading Is college a big waste of time and money? It depends

Guided by the ‘correctness’ of our opinions

Scott’s article GUIDED BY THE BEAUTY OF OUR WEAPONS is going viral. He writes: Yet I have the opposite impression. Somehow a sharply polarized country went through a historically divisive election with essentially no debate taking place. As shown below, going as far back as 100 years, with the exception of FDR (everyone was united… Continue reading Guided by the ‘correctness’ of our opinions

Upward Mobility Linked to Genes

Another nail in the coffin for the blank-slate left: From psychologicalscience.org: Is Success in Our Genes?: When Belsky and colleagues analyzed measures of genetic variation and educational attainment, they found a link: A high polygenic score—an aggregate measure of variation across a person’s genome—predicted not only educational attainment, but other forms of success as well.… Continue reading Upward Mobility Linked to Genes

How To Predict, Part 2: The Downfall of the Popular IPO

Interesting article: The Downfall of the Popular IPO Guess which two stocks this blog recommended…yup…that’s right…Facebook and Ali Baba. The odds of choosing the best two tech IPO stocks out of all possible unique pairs, by pure chance, are about 1/50, so skill is probably involved. This blog has never recommended the other eight. In… Continue reading How To Predict, Part 2: The Downfall of the Popular IPO

And Fear No Darkness

This is going viral: And Fear No Darkness Despite its length, it’s not very convincing. It’s more like a belief than an argument. It’s just the author’s hunch based on some 4th turning ‘theory’ that there is a 50% chance there will be some sort of civilization-ending crisis in the 21st century. Falsifying it is… Continue reading And Fear No Darkness